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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting –December 3, 2010 <br /> <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br /> <br />D. Airport Economic Development Area <br /> <br /> <br />(1) continued… <br /> <br />and also to understand how those businesses <br />here might help in that commercialization <br />process. And then, hopefully, how the <br />residual effect of that would be that they <br />might actually increase their capacity for <br />innovation and technological advances. Both <br />of those things, the commercialization and <br />the regional development, should result in <br />some potential tenants for Ignition Park as <br />they graduate from Innovation Park or as <br />they grow from their existing locations in the <br />region. Also, we are beginning to receive <br />calls of interest about Ignition Park. <br /> <br />It is important for us to understand the best <br />way to develop the physical part of Ignition <br />Park so that we do that in a way that is <br />beneficial ecologically to the community, <br />and so that it appeals to those developers and <br />tenants that are interested. It is a Certified <br />Technology Park. The crucial word is <br />technology. When we’ve developed <br />buildings in the past there was an <br />architectural firm, and they passed their <br />designs to an engineering firm. The <br />engineering firm did the work on top of the <br />architectural work. As buildings require <br />much greater advanced technological <br />components, as we hope they will at Ignition <br />Park, it is crucial that those two things, the <br />engineering and the architecture merge and <br />develop in a cohesive manner. That means <br />we need a firm that has both architectural and <br />engineering capacity. BSA Life Structures is <br />such a firm. Based in Indianapolis, they <br />were started in 1975 and have 197 people on <br /> 23 <br /> <br />